In this section we're looking at the Move Command and in this particular section
we're actually looking at the Move Command with Object Snaps. Now, you'll notice
down at the bottom on the Status Bar you'll see that I've got my Object Snap
switched to the Word settings. If I right click over any of these drafting
settings, I can use icons and they look very different. If you right click on an
icon and click on Use Icons, they go back to the words on the buttons. That is
my personal preference. It's entirely up to you. We need to right click over the
O Snap button and we need to switch on the Object Snap modes that we need to use.
Now, you'll notice on 2009 I can just go and switch them on and off here using this
menu here. So I can switch on my Midpoint Snap just by clicking on it. Older
versions of AutoCAD I have to go to Settings here like so. So if I just cancel
that a second and then right click on O Snap and go up to Midpoint, I switch on
my Midpoint Snap and it's now on rather than off. So I now go up to the Home tab
here and select the Move Command, which is here on the Modify Panel. I then,
using my Pick Box, left click on my two-seater sofa here. I then press Enter or
right click and it asks me for a base point. I'm going to use the Midpoint Snap
here. So I hover over the Midpoint there on the back of the sofa and left click.
That is my base point. So now, as you can see, I'm moving my sofa. So I drag that
into the lounge here. I'm going to place it on the Midpoint Snap there inside
the bay window of the lounge. I left click and my sofa has been moved. If I just
pan slightly now, you'll also see that I've got a three-seater sofa there. Now,
I want to place that three-seater sofa using Object Snaps again. So what I do, I
can either right click now and repeat the move or let's do it a different way.
Click on the sofa first, then right click on the mouse and on the Shortcut Menu now
you can see the Move Command. A lot of the commonly-used Modify Commands are on
the right-hand Shortcut Menu. So if I click on Move now, it straightaway asks me
for a base point. I now go to my Midpoint here, left click and as you can see I
can move my three-seater sofa now around the drawing. I'm going to hold down the
wheel on my mouse now and drag downwards and as you can see, I can pan in the
middle of the Move Command. I'm going to go to the Midpoint here on the wall and
as you can see, I've moved my two sofas into the lounge now using the Move
Command with Object Snaps.
AutoCAD 2009 Certified Professional
Shaun Bryant
US$ 99.95
4 hours - 56 Movies
Win Vista XP 2000,ME. Mac OS X
Ground / 2 day / Next Day
33947
752 In Stock
Apex Web Media ( Hyperteach ) P.O Box 398 Bolton BL7 9YS, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 1204 592071 Fax: +44 (0) 1204 592092 Email:
Apex Web Media ( Hyperteach ) 600 17th Street, Suite 2800, Denver CO 80202 Tel: Toll free 1866 402 1903 (USA) / 434 878 4158 Fax: 1 207 433 4356 Email: